All Babies are Beautiful – or Ugly?

Sometimes I wonder if Devon’s really a cute baby or if I’m just under the influence of the “parent delusion” where every parent thinks their own child is the cutest, most beautiful baby in the world. Pre-Devon, my view on babies was exactly like this guy’s. Erin or my mom would be looking at my cousin’s kids and commenting on how they look like this or that while I’d just be, “Eh. It’s a baby.”

Haha – of course all babies are beautiful – just ask the mother!

I personally think that all babies are ugly, but you are right – once they air out a bit they can become beautiful. It all depends on the baby and their genetic lot, for better or worse!

If you’ve seen genuinely newborn babies, they are hard to tell apart — but most people rarely see them that early since we parents tend to keep them home or so swaddled up all you can peek at is a little hat and maybe a forehead. They tend not to have much fat on ‘em, with scrawny chicken legs and faces still shedding skin cells, so yeah, unless they’re yours or you’ve had a baby of your own, they’re not much to look at.

But if they are your own, their new-baby smell alone is enough. They don’t even have to have you at “Hello.” (Good thing, since that’s usually a couple of years off anyway.)

If your baby looks like Ponzi, it’s beautiful.
If it looks like you, it’s ugly.
I thought you knew that. Where’s the confusion here?

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. If you ask a parent, their child will always be the most beautiful in the world, until teenage years. If you ask someone who has been suffering from a medical condition, an ugly baby is the one who got a bad case of genetics from their parents. If the mother had bad habits during pregnancy such as smoking – I’d assume the chances of having a noticeably ugly baby are higher.

Cathy

haha, I had the same very question when I was child Chris, asking my mother.

People are just trying to be polite!:P

I guess beauty here is defined in the baby’s fragility. I thought my babies were ugly when they were born (I think every mother thinks that the first two seconds!), but when I held them, smelled them, watched them, they grow on you like the next minute or two, and like magic, they transform. See http://www.theshapeofamother.com/ and you’ll see more such ‘magical’ beauties.

I am a nurse and YES there ARE UGLY babies!!!

It’s easy Cris…. All babies look alike.. Except the ones you get to take home with you later on. They are, for some reason, the most beautiful.

[...] Chris Pirillo says that he can’t tell pretty babies from ugly ones. [...]

From people I know who are parents, not having children myself, ugly children are generally other people’s.

Trust me when you see an ugly baby you’ll know!

Circumcision makes them beautiful

I thought my daughter was a bit scary-looking* whereas her brother, arriving a couple of years later, was a gorgeous looking baby. My wife thought the opposite.

*although she rapidly became the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.

Yeah, most babies look alike to me as well. However I did have a friend who’s baby was soooo ugly I couldn’t believe it. You definately know when you’ve seen an ugly baby. Luckily the little tyke grew out of the ugliness!

Ha, no not all babies are beautiful, we had two, and my wife agrees that the second one was like WTF TROLL. The first one was beautiful, and I’ve seen my fair share of cute kids and wretched looking murloc children in my day.

(they even rawglrlrlrlrrlrlrrhh.)

You know what is really scary…

All baby’s soiled diapers are ugly, until it is your baby’s diaper and you just don’t care anymore.

You’ll see…

Most babies, even newborns, are kinda cute, and if they’re yours, they are beautiful. Mother Nature makes them that way so we will fall in love with them instantly. Having said that, I knew of one child who inherited the worst physical traits of both parents. He was truly ugly. Fortunately for him, both of his parents were brilliant and he inherited their brainpower as well, enabling him to become a brilliant professional himself.

[...] And on a final note, I’m not the only person confused by the cute baby proclamations. [...]

Not all babies are ugly. Seriously some are very cute. I know cause all three of mine were. Yes there are uglies out there but some are sooo cute.

It aint my fault people call yo baby ugly u may even be one ugly hefa have a baby with a white man u ugly bitches

There are babies that are very cute. But, I have seen ugly babies.
All new borns do look the same to me too.

P.s. Ponzi and your baby will be very cute and smart for that matter!

=)

I find babies to be just slightly less appealing than fly larvae, which they resemble. I am getting tired of Christmas card baby cards. I think next year I’ll send a photo of my testicles…it’s where my potential future kids are. I’m sure that photo will be as appreciated by them as their larvachild’s photo is to me.

I agree with the previous poster Mark. I would even use the same word…larval. Babies are squidgy, unfinished products. They resemble nothing more in the animal kingdom than the kangaroo Joey, which needs to continue developing in the mother’s pouch because it is unfinished when it is born. Human babies are just like that. With other animals, for the most part, infants are born looking more or less like smaller and cuter versions of the adult animal, and quickly develop enough to be self-sufficient. Human babies certainly don’t. And no, I don’t want to hold your baby. It’s not special. Billions of people have sex, and that leads to babies. Your brood is no more special than any of the others being continually popped out as our world gradually becomes more like that depicted in the movie “Idiocracy”.